Environment and Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9786203194104 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str.

Mohamed Abdel-Raheem; Sadek Salem; Jitamoni Bhattacharyya

Opis

The environmental impact of agriculture varies based on the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Ultimately, the environmental impact depends on the production practices of the system used by farmers. The connection between emissions into the environment and the farming system is indirect, as it also depends on other climate variables such as rainfall and temperature. Some other factors can include types of machinery used for agriculture purposes as well as the farmer's choice of how they handle their livestock. There are two types of indicators of environmental impact: "means-based", which is based on the farmer's production methods, and "effect-based", which is the impact that farming methods have on the farming system or on emissions to the environment. An example of a means-based indicator would be the quality of groundwater, that is effected by the amount of nitrogen applied to the soil.

O autorze

Abdel-Raheem, Mohamed Prof. Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Raheem Ali, Pests & Plant Protection, National Research Centre, Egypt. Prof. Dr. Sadek Salem, Pests & Plant Protection, National Research Centre, Egypt and Jitamoni Bhattacharyya, M-Phil. Librarian, Library and information Science, BiswanathCollege Former guest faculty member of Biswanath Agriculture College, India.